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OK, I'm a TS2Ki newbie with simple questions, most of
which I can answer by looking at the manuals or
EZlanguage signals and indicators that came with. At
this point I can't get my backtesting to happen with
other than EOD resolution, my trades are typically
held one to two days and I need better resloution to
characterize them. I'm getting data from quote.com in
30 minute bars, ASCII format, with Qcollector and it
seems to work really well. I import same into
GlobalServer and can chart an issue with 30 minute
bars or daily using the same data file. So far so
good. When I insert a system, I can select intraday
resolution, 30 minutes but the backtested buys and
sells are at the EOD prices. Some of the EZlanguage
coding is written as "buy at close of this bar" and I
modified that to just "buy" but I still get EOD
resolution. I can put a data2 on the chart and have
both resolutions probably if I want to complicate the
EZlanguage but it appears that the program is written
to backtest using daily bars but with intraday
resolution. Anybody can help with this?

Max